Re: message formatting [was Wheezy/XFCE/VNC}

2013-11-22 Thread Andre Majorel
On 2013-11-20 17:45 +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 02:26:21PM +0100, Andre Majorel wrote: An attribution wouldn't have hurt but it's plain to see that Jon was replying to Emilio's message, not Ron's. Or don't mailers show threads any more ? Mutt, the one I use,

Re: message formatting [was Wheezy/XFCE/VNC}

2013-11-19 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 05:07:52PM +, Brad Rogers wrote: On Mon, 18 Nov 2013 16:52:44 + Ron Leach ronle...@tesco.net wrote: Hello Ron, Jonathan, thank you for the note. I've rechecked. I think Jonathan was directing his comments to Emilio, not you. It's difficult to know for

Re: message formatting [was Wheezy/XFCE/VNC}

2013-11-19 Thread Andre Majorel
On 2013-11-19 21:54 +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 05:07:52PM +, Brad Rogers wrote: I think Jonathan was directing his comments to Emilio, not you. It's difficult to know for sure as he didn't use a name, or quote some of the offending message. An attribution

Re: message formatting [was Wheezy/XFCE/VNC}

2013-11-19 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 05:07:52PM +, Brad Rogers wrote: I think Jonathan was directing his comments to Emilio, not you. It's difficult to know for sure as he didn't use a name, or quote some of the offending message. That's right. My mailer did set in-reply-to correctly, and the message

Re: message formatting [was Wheezy/XFCE/VNC}

2013-11-19 Thread Bob Proulx
Andre Majorel wrote: Or don't mailers show threads any more ? Actually many popular (but incorrect) mail user agents do not show threads. Previously the biggest offender was Outlook. These days the biggest offender is Gmail. I find it very surprising that a mail user agent wouldn't handle

Re: message formatting [was Wheezy/XFCE/VNC}

2013-11-19 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2013-11-19 at 16:04 -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: Andre Majorel wrote: Or don't mailers show threads any more ? Actually many popular (but incorrect) mail user agents do not show threads. Previously the biggest offender was Outlook. These days the biggest offender is Gmail. I find it

Re: message formatting [was Wheezy/XFCE/VNC}

2013-11-19 Thread Bob Proulx
Ralf Mardorf wrote: Averaged computer users very often replace the subject and body of a message, IOW they only keep the address to write a new mail. They aren't aware, that they keep some magic note that is hidden in a magical header. I suspect that Gmail doesn't support it for good reasons.

Re: message formatting [was Wheezy/XFCE/VNC}

2013-11-19 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2013-11-19 at 16:29 -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: Ralf Mardorf wrote: Averaged computer users very often replace the subject and body of a message, IOW they only keep the address to write a new mail. They aren't aware, that they keep some magic note that is hidden in a magical header.

Re: message formatting [was Wheezy/XFCE/VNC}

2013-11-19 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 02:26:21PM +0100, Andre Majorel wrote: On 2013-11-19 21:54 +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 05:07:52PM +, Brad Rogers wrote: I think Jonathan was directing his comments to Emilio, not you. It's difficult to know for sure as he didn't use

Re: message formatting [was Wheezy/XFCE/VNC}

2013-11-18 Thread Ron Leach
On 18/11/2013 16:33, Jonathan Dowland wrote: Hi, I don't know what happened to quoting in your message but it was nigh-on unreadable. It might be worth a look at your mailer settings. Jonathan, thank you for the note. I've rechecked. Looks OK in our mailer, looks fine from the copy from

Re: message formatting [was Wheezy/XFCE/VNC}

2013-11-18 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 18/11/13 16:52, Ron Leach wrote: On 18/11/2013 16:33, Jonathan Dowland wrote: Hi, I don't know what happened to quoting in your message but it was nigh-on unreadable. It might be worth a look at your mailer settings. Jonathan, thank you for the note. I've rechecked. Looks OK in our

Re: message formatting [was Wheezy/XFCE/VNC}

2013-11-18 Thread Bob Proulx
Ron Leach wrote: Jonathan Dowland wrote: Hi, I don't know what happened to quoting in your message but it was nigh-on unreadable. It might be worth a look at your mailer settings. Jonathan, thank you for the note. I've rechecked. Looks OK in our mailer, looks fine from the copy from

Re: message formatting [was Wheezy/XFCE/VNC}

2013-11-18 Thread Brad Rogers
On Mon, 18 Nov 2013 16:52:44 + Ron Leach ronle...@tesco.net wrote: Hello Ron, Jonathan, thank you for the note. I've rechecked. I think Jonathan was directing his comments to Emilio, not you. It's difficult to know for sure as he didn't use a name, or quote some of the offending message.